Play The Part To Become The Part

“Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.”
― Julieanne O’Connor, SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER

“Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can’t trust experts.”
― Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives

“Sometimes you have to “play the part” to become the part.”
― Julieanne O’Connor, SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER

“Indiscretions can lead to great lessons.”
― Julieanne O’Connor, SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER

“When employers designate certain jobs “professional” and insist that employees have professional training – not just the technical skills that seem sufficient to do the work – they must have more in mind than efficiency. Hierarchical organizations need professionals, because through professionals those at the top control the political content of what is produced, and because professionals contribute to the bosses’ control of the workforce itself.”
― Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives

“A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“As I said before, I took to miniature painting without a completely whole heart, on the advice of my elders and betters. Generally speaking, I do not think that one should ever take another person’s advice in the things of life that really matter, but follow the dictates of the still small something in one’s innermost self. But ‘they’ advised, and I bowed to the advice; and in this particular instance it was a good thing I did, because the advice turned out to be so resoundingly wrong that it turned me into another direction altogether. If I had gone on working in oils I might very well have been a dedicated but unsuccessful painter to this day.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection